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236 Department of External Affairs to Australian Delegation, United Nations

Cablegram 425 CANBERRA, 4 August 1947, 4.25 p.m.

MOST IMMEDIATE SECRET

Reference my immediately preceding telegram. [1]

This is the situation we feared would develop and it is essential
that the Secretary-General be informed of the inadequate way in
which his message was sent and that he inform the Security Council
of the advice he has received making a point that, if Indonesian
hostilities do not cease everywhere at midnight tonight, this
would in no way prejudice their position.

Moreover the Secretary-General should, as we have already
suggested [2], immediately despatch an observer and request the
Dutch or some other power, including ourselves, to assist by the
supply of aircraft acting under Security Council authority to drop
pamphlets or take any other action which might be required both to
observe the facts and to facilitate the carrying out of the
decision.

1 Dispatched on 4 August, cablegram 424 conveyed the text of
Document 233.

2 See Document 228.


[AA:A1838/274, 854/10/4, ii]
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